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Prof Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses

Biography

I studied History and Philosophy in Trinity College Dublin, where I also concluded my PhD in History. I joined NUI Maynooth in 1997/8. I have published widely in aspects of contemporary Portuguese and Spanish history. In 2005/6 I was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais, in the University of Lisbon, and in 2012/13 I was the FLAD/Brown Michael Teague Visiting Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. I was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2017.

Research Interests

I am interested in contemporary Portuguese and Spanish history; the First World War and its effects; and diplomatic history in general. I published a biography of António de Oliveira Salazar, which was translated into Portuguese, being published in both Portugal and Brazil. I am currently involved in a number of projects designed to mark the centenary of the First World War and on a longer-term study of the decolonization of Southern Africa. I was the recipient of two major IRCHSS fellowships, the first in 2005-06 and the second in 2011-12.

The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960-1980.
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Robert McNamara (2018) The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960-1980. London: Palgrave. [DOI] [Details]

'Civil-Military Relations during World War I (Portugal)'
Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe (2014) 'Civil-Military Relations during World War I (Portugal)' In: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin. [DOI] [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

Year

Publication

2017

'Introduction: The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond'
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (2017) 'Introduction: The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond'. E-Journal of Portuguese History, 15 (1):1-14 [Details]

2017

'Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (part I)'
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (2017) 'Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (part I)'. First World War Studies, [DOI] [Details]

2017

'Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (Part II)'
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (2017) 'Anglo-Portuguese relations on the Western Front: the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and the British High Command (Part II)'. First World War Studies, [DOI] [Details]

'‘The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970-1974’'
Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe
&
Robert McNamara (2012) '‘The Last Throw of the Dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1970-1974’'. PORTUGUESE STUDIES, 28 :201-215 [Details]

2012

'Slander, Ideological Differences, or Academic Debate? The “Verão Quente” of 2012 and the State of Portuguese Historiography'
Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe (2012) 'Slander, Ideological Differences, or Academic Debate? The “Verão Quente” of 2012 and the State of Portuguese Historiography'. E-Journal of Portuguese History, 10 [Details]

2011

'Salazar, the Portuguese Army and Great War Commemoration'
Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe (2011) 'Salazar, the Portuguese Army and Great War Commemoration'. Contemporary European History, 20 :405-418 [Details]

'Camoes, Portuguese war propaganda, and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2005) 'Camoes, Portuguese war propaganda, and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918'. NUI MAYNOOTH PAPERS IN SPANISH, PORTUGUESE AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, 12 :1-27 [IR Link] [Details]

2003

'Only parliament can negotiate with such a sacred raw material: The secret sessions of the Portuguese Congress, July 1917'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2003) 'Only parliament can negotiate with such a sacred raw material: The secret sessions of the Portuguese Congress, July 1917'. PORTUGUESE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, 1 [Details]

2003

'The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F., Baiôa, M. and Fernandes, P.J. (2003) 'The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal'. E-JOURNAL OF PORTUGUESE HISTORY, 1 [Details]

2003

'The political history of twentieth-century Portugal'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F., Baiôa, M. and Fernandes, P.J. (2003) 'The political history of twentieth-century Portugal'. E-JOURNAL OF PORTUGUESE HISTORY, 1 [Details]

2002

'Investigating Portugal, Salazar and the New State: The work of the Irish legation in Lisbon, 1942-1945'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2002) 'Investigating Portugal, Salazar and the New State: The work of the Irish legation in Lisbon, 1942-1945'. CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY, 11 [Details]

'All of us are looking forward to leaving: The censored correspondence of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France, 1917-1918'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2000) 'All of us are looking forward to leaving: The censored correspondence of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps in France, 1917-1918'. European History Quarterly, 30 [Details]

'Sidónio Pais, the Portuguese 'New Republic' and the challenge to liberalism in Southern Europe'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (1998) 'Sidónio Pais, the Portuguese 'New Republic' and the challenge to liberalism in Southern Europe'. European History Quarterly, 28 [Details]

1998

'Too serious a matter to be left to the Generals? Parliament and the Army in wartime Portugal, 1914-1918'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (1998) 'Too serious a matter to be left to the Generals? Parliament and the Army in wartime Portugal, 1914-1918'. Journal of Contemporary History, 33 [Details]

1998

'Sidonio Pais, the Portuguese 'New-Republic' and the challenge to liberalism in Southern-Europe'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F (1998) 'Sidonio Pais, the Portuguese 'New-Republic' and the challenge to liberalism in Southern-Europe'. European History Quarterly, 28 :109-130 [Details]

1998

'Too serious a matter to be left to the generals? Parliament and the army in wartime Portugal, 1914-18'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F (1998) 'Too serious a matter to be left to the generals? Parliament and the army in wartime Portugal, 1914-18'. Journal of Contemporary History, 33 :85-96 [Details]

'Camões, Portuguese war propaganda and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918'
Ribeiro de Meneses, F. (2005) 'Camões, Portuguese war propaganda and the dream of a safe colonial empire, 1914-1918' NUI Maynooth Papers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, :1-25. [Details]

The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond.
(2016) The Lusophone World at War, 1914-1918 and Beyond. [Oral Presentation], Different Approaches to War: Portugal and Brazil, 1916-1918, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
[Details]

2016

(2016) [Oral Presentation], Portugal, the Great War, and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance, Cavalry and Guards Club, London
[Details]

2014

UCD Centre for War Studies Research Seminar.
(2014) UCD Centre for War Studies Research Seminar. [Oral Presentation], The Portuguese-Speaking World and the First World War, UCD Centre for War Studies
[Details]

2014

Navigating Neutrality: Neutral Countries and the First World War Workshop.
(2014) Navigating Neutrality: Neutral Countries and the First World War Workshop. [Oral Presentation], Neutrality as Subservience? Portugal, 1914-1916, UCD Centre for War Studies
[Details]

'Portugal in the Contemporary World' Roundtable.
(2014) 'Portugal in the Contemporary World' Roundtable. [Oral Presentation], Portuguese Studies in the English-Speaking World, University of Stirling Contemporary Portuguese History Research Centre
[Details]

2013

'The Great War and the Wider World’ workshop.
(2013) 'The Great War and the Wider World’ workshop. [Oral Presentation], Portugal and the First World War: Immediate impact and long-term consequences, University of Buenos Aires
[Details]

On the Eve of War Conference.
(2013) On the Eve of War Conference. [Oral Presentation], Waiting for War: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece, 1914-1918, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura
[Details]

2013

(2013) [Oral Presentation], South Africa, Rhodesia, and the Portuguese Revolution of 1974, Watson Institute for International Affairs, Brown University
[Details]

2013

'The Great War and the Wider World’ workshop.
(2013) 'The Great War and the Wider World’ workshop. [Oral Presentation], O Império Português, a Primeira República e a Grande Guerra: 1910-1926, University of São Paulo
[Details]

2013

(2013) [Oral Presentation], 'Defying the Wind of Change: Portugal, Rhodesia, and South Africa, 1961-1980, Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
[Details]

(2012) [Oral Presentation], Making sense of Salazar, Salazarism and the New State, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[Details]

2012

‘Portuguese History in a Global Context’ colloquium.
(2012) ‘Portuguese History in a Global Context’ colloquium. [Oral Presentation], Slander, ideological differences, or academic debate? The “Verão Quente” of 2012 [...], Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
[Details]

2012

The Greater War: Imperial mobilization, demobilization, and unrest in the era of the First World War.
(2012) The Greater War: Imperial mobilization, demobilization, and unrest in the era of the First World War. [Oral Presentation], An impossible mobilization: Portugal and her African colonies, 1914-1918, UCD Centre for War Studies
[Details]

2012

Instituto Camões Centre, Departments of History & Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
(2012) Instituto Camões Centre, Departments of History & Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies. [Oral Presentation], 'The last thow of the dice: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961-1974', King's College London
[Details]

2012

‘Portuguese History in a Global Context’ colloquium.
(2012) ‘Portuguese History in a Global Context’ colloquium. [Oral Presentation], ‘A.H. de Oliveira Marques’, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University
[Details]

2011

NUI Maynooth Department of History Research Seminar.
(2011) NUI Maynooth Department of History Research Seminar. [Oral Presentation], Defying the wind of change: Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa, 1961-1981, NUI Maynooth
[Details]

2011

UCD Centre for War Studies Seminar.
(2011) UCD Centre for War Studies Seminar. [Oral Presentation], Portugal and its colonial empire in a world at war, 1914-1919, UCD
[Details]

Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies, NUIM.
(2011) Centre for Military History and Strategic Studies, NUIM. [Oral Presentation], 'Who was in charge of Portugal's decolonization? Angola as a case study', NUI Maynooth
[Details]

The CamÃµes Centre for Portuguese Language & Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
(2010) The CamÃµes Centre for Portuguese Language & Department of Spanish and Portuguese. [Oral Presentation], The Portuguese First Republic: An Overview, University of Leeds
[Details]

2009

Department of Portuguese.
(2009) Department of Portuguese. [Oral Presentation], To what end power? Salazar and Portugal, 1928-68, University of Massachussets, Dartmouth
[Details]

2009

Watson Institute for International Studies.
(2009) Watson Institute for International Studies. [Oral Presentation], To what end power? Salazar and Portugal, 1928-68, Brown University
[Details]

2009

Dept of Spanish & Portuguese.
(2009) Dept of Spanish & Portuguese. [Oral Presentation], To what end power? Salazar and Portugal, 1928-68, University of Georgetown
[Details]

From the Trenches to Versailles: War and Memory.
(2009) From the Trenches to Versailles: War and Memory. [Oral Presentation], Afonso Costa [...] e o tratado de Versalhes, IHC/CEIS 20 (Lisbon)
[Details]

International History of Concentration Camps.
(2008) International History of Concentration Camps. [Oral Presentation], Salazar's ultimate deterrent? [...], Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin
[Details]